The United States is now setting fresh rules for geopolitical gameplay. The expression is the latest National safety Strategy, published by president Trump's administration.
The perception of this paper and the assessment of its pronunciation are completely different from that of different countries. If I were a resident, for example, of 1 of the countries of Central or South America, I would be entitled to feel threatened by the intention of strengthening American dominance. But I'm not.
For us, Poles, the fresh American safety strategy has more chances than threats. 1 of the most crucial among the erstwhile is the possible of a comparatively fast end to the war on Ukraine. It reads plainly: "The key interest of the United States is to negociate a swift end to the war in Ukraine in order to stabilise European economies, prevent unintended escalation or widen war, and reconstruct strategical stableness in relations with Russia."
Thus, it is expected of many, any with hope, and others with fear, to reset the West in relations with Russia. The West, an integral though marginal part of which is besides Poland. It is the right minute to consider taking concrete pragmatic steps to reconstruct political, economical and cultural relations with Russia alternatively of cursing the reality with infantile rusophobic tirades.
However, this may be more hard than it seems at first glance. For who would be the face of this reset? A policy that is crucial and credible adequate to represent the Polish side, and sufficiently untangled in the demolition of common relations, would not prevent it from a Russian point of view.
The Minister of abroad Affairs Radosław Sikorski is surely not suitable for specified a mission. A man who seeks his own image more than Poland's interests. For example, it does so by blowing to the right and left equally spectacular and evocative as empty and meaningless threats towards Russia. Sikorski as a minister has consistently corrupted Polish-Russian relations. The expression of this, apart from his unspeakable language, was besides concrete actions, specified as the closure of Russian consulates in Poland, to the detriment of Poles surviving in Russia. So narcissist, buffoon, and Sikorski vermin are evidently not suitable. likewise to Donald Tusk, who as the Prime Minister of the Council of Ministers, Sikorski's policy was a company and inactive is.
It's not better on the another side. president Karol Nawrocki is simply a man who built his political position by destroying the commemoration of fallen russian soldiers. A man who, out of his anti-communism, is actually a façade ineptly masking angry russophobia, has made his axis of identity. Who refused to meet Viktor Orban just due to the fact that he maintains a relation with Vladimir Putin.
Besides, all 3 of them, despite their differences, combine furious anti-Russianism and consistent war incitement. Even Nawrocks, verbally distancing themselves from European politicians and focusing on Trump's administration, cannot aid themselves from pro-war and russophobic huffs.
Apart from the 2 main political camps, the situation is no better. Apart from the fact that in global relations Poland can only represent the president or the government, in the ranks of smaller parties and so it is impossible to find any possible candidate for talks with Russia. The Polish People's Party, which only a fewer years ago and appeared as an oasis of moderation and realism among the mad national politics, today, under the leadership of Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, became a provincial shrine to the Civic Coalition. The left has long since dealt with any real problems, heroicly fighting for its own survival. The leaders of the Confederacy, on the another hand, have no courage to take their own stand on the issue of east politics, prying between uncommon flashes of political realism and a Hurayarian PiS-style fanfaronade. In turn, Grzegorz Braun, even if the incriminated mission would like to undertake, due to his many stunts by no 1 in Europe and the planet will be taken seriously. Then we have a stalemate.
The conclusion, though grim, is obvious. Among the Polish political elites there are no people, or even political formations, capable of communicating with Moscow. In this situation, large Brother from across the ocean has 2 choices. He will either make a fresh force in Poland, which politicians will realize more about the planet around them, or he will consider that there is no request for Poland to communicate with Russia at all. Then in the collective west, we will play the function of a scout. A Kuriosian ratler who has no strength but bravely barks everyone around.
Przemysław Piasta
Think Poland, No. 51-52 (21-28.12.2025)
